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True or false: The author posits that, "...food marketers and dietary supplement makers use synthetic vitamins to add a veneer of health to otherwise unhealthy products..." correct answers True
In relation to vitamins, this statement refers to --> to function the body needs them, but the body...
HNF 310 Reading Quizzes 1-15 || with Errorless Solutions
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True or false: The author posits that, "...food marketers and dietary supplement makers use
synthetic vitamins to add a veneer of health to otherwise unhealthy products..." correct answers
True
In relation to vitamins, this statement refers to --> to function the body needs them, but the body
can not synthesize them insufficient quantities or at all correct answers Essential
In relation to vitamins, this statement refers to --> they are only needed in really small quantities
(usually less than 100 mg each day) correct answers Micronutrients
True or false: "While enzymes speed up chemical reactions without being destroyed, most of the
chemical reactions that depend on vitamins actually use up the vitamins. That's why we need a
continuous external supply." correct answers True
In the late 1400's and early 1500's, ship owners and governments expected what percent of their
long-voyage sailors to die from scurvy? correct answers 50%
Babies of wealthy and educated Americans in the late 1800s and 1900s suffered from scurvy.
Why? correct answers The popularization of unfortified pasteurized cow's milk as a drink
became preferred over that of human milk for infants
True or false: Even back in the 1400's and 1500's some people knew that certain fruits and
vegetables could protect people from scurvy. Scurvy is the disease that caused gums to bleed,
joint aches, arm/leg swelling, internal hemorrhaging, and poor wound healing correct answers
True
What molecule can not be made when a person has a deficiency of vitamin C? correct answers
Collagen
True or false: The primary role of vitamins is to facilitate chemical reactions (i.e they typically
function as co-enzymes) correct answers True
True or false: Sailors used to suffer from scurvy. A disease caused by a vitamin C deficiency
correct answers True
What is the copyright year of Vitamania? correct answers 2015
What destroys vitamin C? correct answers Exposure to air, heating, and cutting the food item
True or false: In 2011, it was published that "large percentages of [our intakes of ] vitamins A,
B6, B12, C, and D as well as thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, folate, and iron were from fortification
and/or enrichment." correct answers True
, The amount of a nutrient thought to meet the needs of 50 percent of the people in a particular age
group correct answers EAR
The amount of a nutrient thought to meet the needs of 97-98 percent of the people in a particular
age group correct answers RDA
A compendium of vitamins and countless other chemicals that might be beneficial for your
health correct answers Food
Chemical molecules that are able to neutralize free radicals so that the free radicals don't cause
harmful chain reactions in the body or in plants correct answers Vitamin
When they were picked, the place they were grown, the amount of water they received, how long
they were in transport sand/or storage, the amount of photosynthesis it engages in, it's ability to
absorb light, how they were processed correct answers Contributions to nutritional profile of a
plant
True or false: Although humans have the genes for producing vitamin C, humans can't synthesize
vitamin C correct answers True
Most of the vitamins consumed by humans these days come from ____________________
correct answers Factories
What living organism makes vitamin B12? correct answers Bacteria
Most common non-human diet/synthetic source of vitamin C correct answers Sorbitol
Most common non-human diet/synthetic source of vitamin A correct answers Acetone and
formaldehyde
Most common non-human diet/synthetic source of niacin correct answers Nylon 6,6
Most common non-human diet/synthetic source of thiamin correct answers Chemical from coal
tar
Most common non-human diet/synthetic source of vitamin D correct answers Lanolin
Most common non-human diet/synthetic source of vitamin B12 correct answers Bacteria
True or false: US military rations are devoid of synthetic vitamins correct answers False
What are three of the most commonly vitamin-enhanced and consumed foods in the US? correct
answers Breakfast cereals, bread, cow's milk
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